T.H.E DANCE COMPANY

Described as a dance company ‘at the top of its game’, The Human Expression DanceCompany (T.H.E), along with our semi-professional training arm, T.H.E Second Company,are names synonymous with ground breaking contemporary dance of the highest quality andartistry. Founded in 2008 by Artistic Director Kuik Swee Boon with 6 members, T.H.E hasbecome a household name in Singapore and the region, having commissioned andperformed at most major local arts festivals (Singapore Arts Festival, Esplanade da:ns

T.H.E SECOND COMPANY

T.H.E Second Company is the training company set up by T.H.E. Aimed at the semi-professional level, it was established in 2008 and takes in dancers who display a high level of potential in dance. Key to this is a stringent technique training program taught by members of the main company as well as guest teachers that ensures a sound level of physical aptitude needed to tackle the challenges of contemporary dance.

Various members of T.H.E Second Company have received exposure from avenues such as liTHE, an in-house annual showcase, high profile commissions such as the international touring showcase Singapore:Inside Out, for the SG50 celebrations, and the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre’s inaugural Cultural Extravaganza in 2017 directed by Royston Tan, and overseas tours with T.H.E Dance Company.

T.H.E HUMAN ELEMENT

COLLABORATIONS

Collaboration is an important part of T.H.E Dance Company’s artistic vision. We believe that a successful work does not depend on one person’s effort but the collective energy of a dynamic group of individuals. We have worked with local and foreign artists from diverse artistic disciplines including musicians Bani Haykal, Darren Ng, and Wang Yu Jun (Taiwan) as well as fashion designer Sunny Lim, Brazilian video artist Gabriela Gomes, Finnish lighting designer Anna Rouhu, and international choreographers such as Xing Liang (Hong Kong), Zhang Xiao-Xiong (Taiwan), Wu Yi San (Taiwan), Boi Sakti (Indonesia), Jeffrey Tan (Singapore) and Dimo Kirilov (France/Spain).

Kuik Swee Boon

Kuik Swee Boon

Artistic Director & Principal Choreographer

Founder and Artistic Director of T.H.E Dance Company and the M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival (Singapore); co-Artistic Director of Malaysia’s D'MOTION International Dance Festival 2013 – 2015. Kuik was the first Asian principal male dancer with Spain’s Compañia Nacional de Danza (CND) from 2002 – 2007. During his career with the CND, he worked mainly with Nacho Duato as well as renowned choreographers like Jiri Kylian, Mats Ek, Ohad Naharin and Wim Vandekeybus. Prior to joining the CND, he began his dance career in 1990 with the Singapore People’s Association Dance Company and Singapore Dance Theatre.Kuik’s exceptional artistry led him to receive a nomination in 2003 for the Benois De La Danse Award. In 2007, he was awarded the Young Artist Award from the National Arts Council of Singapore (NAC). He founded T.H.E Dance Company in September 2008. Since its establishment, T.H.E has quickly ascended to become a well-known company locally and in Asia. His critically acclaimed works include Silence (2007), As It Fades (2011), collaboration works RE:OK...BUT! (2011) and Above 40 (2015) were recognised as amongst the best of shows in their respective years. Kuik’s works have also toured to prestigious international festivals, including festival-closing performances at the Les Hivernales festival in Avignon, France. In 2016, Kuik initiated and continues to develop the “hollow body” methodology for T.H.E’s training system and performances.

Silvia Yong

Silvia Yong

Associate Artistic Director, T.H.E Second Company

Trained in contemporary dance and Chinese classical dance, Silvia Yong’s career began with the People’s Association Dance Company in 1990. From 2000 to 2004, she was a principal dancer with Odyssey Dance Theatre in Singapore. Yong has also been invited to work with local and regional dance companies and artists including The Arts Fission Company (Singapore), ECNAD (Singapore), E-Side Modern Dance Company (Hong Kong) and “Xin” Dance Workshop (Malaysia).
Yong holds a Postgraduate Diploma in dance training and education from the London Contemporary Dance School, as well as her Masters of Arts in contemporary dance under the NAC Arts Bursary awarded by the National Arts Council of Singapore. She teaches dance at several local arts and education institutions. As one of the founding members of T.H.E Dance Company, she has performed in all of the company’s major works from its establishment to 2011.

Kim Jae Duk

Kim Jae Duk

Resident Choreographer

As T.H.E Dance Company’s very first resident choreographer, Kim Jae Duk’s works have been described by critics as among some of the most attention grabbing, refreshing and innovative. His pulsating works straddle both the pop and artistic realms and place great emphasis on highlighting complications that arise from an individual’s relationship with larger societal structures. His works shed light on sections of society that do not necessarily fall into the standard mould.
Kim’s partnership with T.H.E is seen as both vital and beneficial. Artistic attitudes of both parties are perfectly aligned and form a dynamic relationship. More than just an invited foreign choreographer, Kim’s energy is essential to further developing T.H.E’s artistic core. The works Kim have created include RE:OK…BUT!, Hey Man! and his first full-length creation for the company, Mr. Sign. All feature his signature dark humour, fast-paced choreography, stylishly self-composed, beat-driven music, and situate themselves perfectly in today’s contemporary environment. Kim is currently also Artistic Director of the up-and-coming Korean contemporary dance company, Modern Table.
He has been featured in Arirang "Heart-to-Heart" Show, Artist - Dancing Under Spotlight - Full Episode available here.
Praise for Kim Jae Duk
“T.H.E has struck gold with South Korean choreographer Kim Jae Duk… Kim is a precociously talented maverick who composes his own music for his high-octane dance pieces.” – Germaine Cheng, The Straits Times
“金在德的‘爆裂’风格在本地、甚至亚洲舞蹈界都难得一见，我认为他堪称‘亚洲的 Hofesh Shecter’！” - 王一鸣，联合早报

Anthea Seah

Anthea Seah

Dance Artist

Anthea Seah trained in Chinese Dance, street, jazz and contemporary dance. Anthea graduated with a BA(Hons) Dance degree from LASALLE College of the Arts in 2015, where she worked with local artists Albert Tiong, Melissa Quek and Susan Yeung, and international artists Marie-Gabrielle Rotie, Akiko Kitamura (Leni-Basso) and Wu Yi-San (Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, CCDC). She was a member of T.H.E Second Company before joining T.H.E Dance Company in April 2015, and has been involved in projects with semi-professional collective, Sigma. Currently a professional dancer with the principal company, Anthea was appointed assistant to the Artistic Director in August 2017.

Brandon Khoo

Brandon Khoo

Dance Artist

Brandon Khoo began his training in Chinese dance at Soka Gakkai Malaysia Association at age 13. He joined the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts’ (NAFA) Diploma in Dance Programme in 2012, and is a recipient of the NAFA scholarship for 2014 and 2015. As a student dancer he participated in a work choreographed by Viv Phua Mui Ling, which won the Gold Medal at the Asia Youth Dance Festival 2013 in Hong Kong. Brandon graduated from NAFA in 2015 and joined T.H.E Dance Company in July 2015.

Ng Zu You

Ng Zu You

Dance Artist

Zu You started dance at the age of 13, training in classical Chinese and folk dance with the Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan Dance Troupe (now known as SCDT), under the tutelage of Lim Moi Kim. He holds a Diploma in Dance from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, and in 2017 graudated from the Taipei National University of Arts (TNUA) with a Degree in Dance. He has worked with choreographers such as Lim Moi Kim, Neo Jenny, Albert Tiong, Jeffrey Tan, Cheng Hsienfa and Zhang Xiao-Xiong. Zu You joined T.H.E Dance Company from July 2017.

Mendoza Klievert Jon Junia

Mendoza Klievert Jon Junia

Dance Artist

Klievert received his formal dance training at Philippine High School for the Arts majoring in Ballet and received the Outstanding Student Artist Award upon graduation; and at 16 years old, he bagged both First Place and Best Choreography Award during the 1st Cultural Center of Philippines National Ballet Competition. As a freshman in NAFA, he won the Gold Medal in France International Ballet Competition, and he graduated from NAFA with distinction, garnering both the President Award and the Best Graduate Award. He was also the first Filipino to represent his country in the Final Rounds of Youth America Grand Prix in New York.

Nah Jie Ying

Nah Jie Ying

Apprentice Dancer

Jieying Nah started training as an artistic gymnast and a Chinese dancer since 7 years old. She moved on to Contemporary Dance and Ballet training at SOTA, School of the Arts at 13 years old. Graduating with an International Baccalaureate Diploma, she moved on to becoming a dancer with T.H.E Second Company from 2011 to 2015.
Jieying is recipient of the National Arts Council Scholarship (Undergraduate) 2016. In 2018, Jieying graduated from London Contemporary Dance School with First Class Honors.
Upon returning to Singapore, she joined T.H.E Dance Company in Jan 2019.

Fiona Thng

Fiona Thng

Apprentice Dance Artist

Born 1995, Fiona Thng is a dancer, instructor and choreographer trained in various styles such as locking, hip hop, street jazz, contemporary and jazz With her group Scarlett she has completed in numerous such as The Dance Floor Season 2, TRDO Dance competitions, All-Babes Cineleisure Dance Battle, and has also worked with choreographers such as Ryan Tan, Jeffrey Tan, Zaki Ahmad, Lisa Keegan. Fiona joined T.H.E Dance Company as an apprentice in August 2019.

Zhuo Zihao

Zhuo Zihao

Associate Artist

Jackie Ong

Jackie Ong

Assistant to Associate Artistic Director (T.H.E Second Company Rehearsal Master)

Jackie Ong graduated from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) with a Diploma in Dance and wasawarded the NAFA scholarship in 2010. He joined T.H.E Second Company in 2009, and has participated in all M1 CONTACT festival performances since. Jackie performed in the original As It Fades, the Singapore Arts Festival 2011 commission for T.H.E Dance Company, in 2014 for the restaging and 2017 in Niigata, Japan. He was one of the performers for Permission to speak, sir, the Singapore:Inside Out commission in 2015 that traveled to London, New York and Beijing. In 2016 he did a month residency in Seoul and collaborated with award-winning artists Choi Minsun and Kang Jinan for a work that premiered at the Seoul Performing Arts Festival 2016, followed by M1 CONTACT Festival 2016. He most recently performed in “Double”, choreographed by Albert Tiong for M1 Contact Festival and subsequently in Macau and Shanghai.

Goh Shou Yi

Goh Shou Yi

Associate Artist (T.H.E Second Company)

Goh Shou Yi first discovered his zeal for dance when he was enrolled into an all-male ballet class at the age of twelve. He completed his full-time dance education at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) and went on to further develop his craft at the State University of New York (SUNY) Purchase College Conservatory of Dance, with full scholarships awarded by the National Arts Council, Singapore. During his time in New York, Shou Yi had the opportunity to meet and train closely with many established artists such as Janet Panetta (Tanztheater Wuppertal). This affinity with dance also brought him to many other cities of Europe, Asia and Australia, exposing himself to many other styles of dancing and practices. Since his homecoming, Shou Yi was selected by Lianhe Zaobao as a "rising star to watch" (2015 ‘艺术新星-照耀未来星空’) in January 2015.

Shou Yi joined T.H.E Second Company in 2009, and has choreographed for its liTHE showcase in 2014, 2015, and 2017, as well as T.H.E Dance Company’s New Vision platform. His works have also been performed by arts institutions in Singapore, and been featured in festivals in Singapore – Esplanadeda:nsfestival, M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival, and abroad – d’MOTION International Dance Festival in Malaysia, Seoul Performing Arts Festival (SPAF) and N.D.A Festival in South Korea, and Gothenburg Fringe Festival in Sweden. Shou Yi has alsobeen involved as a choreographer in theatre projects suchas Toy Factory’s PRISM (2017) directed by Rei Poh.

Marcus Foo

Marcus Foo

Associate Artist (T.H.E Second Company)

Marcus started his formal dance training at LASALLE College of the Arts under the tutelage of Dr. Caren Carino, Ravenna Tucker and Jaime Redfern. Upon graduating from LASALLE, Marcus became a member of the L.A. Dance Connection Performance Company (Singapore) directed by Lionel Araya and later a project dancer from 2007-09 with Moving Image Arts (Singapore) now known as John Mead Dance Company.

From the period of 2010 – 2015 he performed with T.H.E Second Company. His performances with T.H.E includesAs It Fades(2014), The Singapore Writer’s Festival 2012,Bedfellows(2013) and M1 CONTACT Festival 2010 – 2014.Whilst performing with the T.H.E Second Company, he was invited as guest dancer with Mad About Dance Company in New York for their Spring Season 2012 performances. Marcus presented a solo work in Hong Kong for the 5thContemporary Dance Asian Male (2015) showcase presented by E-Side Dance Company and was a dancer for British choreographer Joe Moran, in his 2016 residency at the Delfina Foundation, London.

He has choreographed on T.H.E Second Company for their annual platform liTHE in 2013, 2014 and 2017. International collaborative efforts include works for BIENNALE des DANSES des SEYCHELLES with Parisian dancer Jimmy Vairon, Seoul Performing Arts Festival 2014 with Korean dancer Jin Byoung Cheol and DancePort 2018 (Tokyo) with Yokohama Dance Collection winner (2013) Daisuke Inoue and Seoul Dance Collection winner (2013) Lee Sang Hyun. In 2017 he choreographed for the 3rdedition of Dance in Situ (Singapore), a platform that explores contemporary dance within public spaces in Singapore.

In 2017, Marcus completed his postgraduate studies at London Contemporary Dance School and graduated with a Master of Arts degree with distinction from the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He most recently completed his 200hr Yoga Teacher Training at Yoga Movement Academy (Singapore) validated by Yoga Alliance, the international standard for Yoga Teacher Training. Marcus is currently an associate artist of T.H.E Second Company (Singapore).

Zhuo Zihao

Zhuo Zihao

T.H.E Founding member/ Associate Artist

Zhuo Zihao received his contemporary dance training at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, both under scholarship. He has worked with various choreographers including Alberto Del-Saz, Robert Tannion, Charlotte-Boyd Christensen, and Cheng Tsung-Lung. He was also a resident artiste with Odyssey Dance Theatre in Singapore. As a founding member of T.H.E Dance Company, he has performed in all the company's works since its establishment as well as featured his solo work at the CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival 2010, an annual dance intensive initiated by T.H.E. In 2012, Zhuo was conferred the Young Artist Award (Dance).

Wang Yujun

Wang Yujun

Music Director, Composer and Live Performer

Born in Kaohsiung, Yujun is a graduate of the Applied Drama and Theater Department of the National Taiwan University of Arts. She currently works as a music composer and singer.
Keen on interdisciplinary exploration, Yujun has developed a stereoscopic approach to shaping the sound of music. Her practice draws upon observations of everyday life and ordinary people, transmuting mundane and fleeting impressions into a sonic documentation of complex emotional states.

Jing Ng

Jing Ng

Sound Collaborator

Awarded with National Arts Council Scholarship, Jing graduated with first class honors from Rose Bruford College (UK) specialising in Performance Sound. He has a keen interest for sound design in theatre and dance; and enjoys collaborative, devised and experimental works. Excited to work with T.H.E. again!
Singapore credits: A Fleeting Moment, Grind, Lord of The Flies, Helix, Pure, Pretty Butch, Prism, Fundamentally Happy.
UK credits: Little Black Book, Corpus Christi, Orion’s Hat, Rites & Regulations, Ghost Sonata, The Bacchae, You Me Bum Bum Train.
Nominated for Best Sound Design in the 2014 Off West End Theatre Awards for Outfox Productions’ Corpus Christi (UK).

Jeffrey Tan

Jeffrey Tan

Former Associate Artist

Jeffrey Tan is one of Singapore’s most prolific and established dancer, choreographer and educator. Formerly a principal dancer, assistant ballet master, and resident choreographer (2004 – 2008) with Singapore Dance Theatre (SDT), the Master of Fine Arts graduate from Queensland University of Technology is T.H.E’s very first associate artist as of 2013.
Tan received the Singapore Young Artiste Award (Excellence in Dance) in 2000 and has performed the works of George Balanchine, Goh Choo San, Graham Lustig, Nacho Duato, Jiri Kylian, and Boi Sakti to name a few. He has also toured to international venues in the United States, Australia, China, London, Indonesia, Malaysia, and to festivals such as the Le Temps d’Aimer la Danse a Biarritz in France, and Chang Mu Arts Festival in Korea. Testament to his versatility as a choreographer, Tan has worked in the balletic and contemporary dance forms, for musicals, and major events such as the Singapore National Day Parade and Singapore Shanghai World Expo 2010.
Tan’s appointment as T.H.E’s associate artist in 2013 marks the choreographer’s highly anticipated return to the local contemporary dance scene, and limitless potential for the company’s growth as Tan imparts his wealth of experience and elegant, fluid style.

Mikiko Kawamura

Mikiko Kawamura

First exposed to street dance at age sixteen, Mikiko Kawamura majored in dance at the Japan Women’s College of Physical Education. Her solo work “Alphard” premiered at Yokohama Dance Collection EX 2012, and thereafter presented at Dance Triennale Tokyo 2012, Japan; Malta Festival Poznan 2013, Poland; Perforations Festival 2013 in Zagreb, Croatia; Europe Meets Asia in Contemporary Dance Festival 2013 in Hanoi, Vietnam; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; Contemporary Dance Showcase: Japan + East Asia 2015 at Japan Society, NY, U.S.A. She has also presented work at the Seoul International Dance Festival (SIDance) 2011 and JoJo-Oulu Dance Festival 2013 in Finland.
Awards include the Outstanding New Artist Prize at Yokohama Dance Collection EX 2011; the Next Generation Choreographer Award and Audience Award at the Toyota Choreography Award in 2014, and the Jury Prize and The French Embassy Prize for Young Choreographer at Yokohama Dance Collection EX 2015, all for “Inner Mommy”. Mikiko has also taken part in residencies in Romania, collaborating with artists from Finland and Croatia. She is currently a Junior Fellow at the Saison Foundation.

Kim Hwan-Hee

Kim Hwan-Hee

Kim Hwan-Hee graduated with a BA and MA from Sejong University, South Korea. He is the representative of Choombut, a member of Tatmaroo Dance Company, and lecturer at Sejong University. In 2014, he was awarded the best prize from AK21 International Choreographers Fostering Competition as part of Busan International Dance Festival. In the same year, he received the choreography prize from SPAF Seoul Dance Collection. In 2011, he also received the 1st prize in the division of contemporary senior males at Seoul International Dance Competition.

Jecko Siompo

Jecko Siompo

Papuan-born, Jakarta-based dancer-choreographer Jecko Siompo is one of Indonesia’s most renowned contemporary dance artists. Jecko was trained in traditional form such as Javanese, Sumatran and Minang ethnic dance, and other contemporary forms as a student at the Jakarta Institute of the Arts, including ballet and street dance. In 1999, he picked up hip-hop in New York and has incorporated street dance into his vocabulary of Papuan dance culture, integrating Jakarta’s hip-hop subculture into his choreography and dance films. As a dancer, he has participated in productions by both well-known Indonesian artists Sardono W. Kusumo and Boi G. Sakti and international choreographers such as Peter Chin (Canada) locally and abroad. In 2002, he was awarded a scholarship by the Goethe-Institute to study dance theatre in Germany. He has participated in international dance forums and arts festivals both within Indonesia and across Asia, Europe and the US, including Live Arts Bangkok (2007), the Asia Contemporary Dance Festival in Osaka (2007, 2008), the Asian Dance Conference in Tokyo (2007), and the Hong Kong Arts Festival (2009). He is also a jury member of the popular Indonesian TV programme Let’s Dance.

Iratxe Ansa

Iratxe Ansa

Spanish choreographer, Iratxe Ansa, attended the Conservatorio Superior de Musica before graduating from the John Cranko Schule Stuttgart, Germany. She danced with Basel Ballet and Ballet Gulbelkian before acting as muse to Nacho Duato in the Compañia Nacional de Danza Madrid, Spain, having many roles and pieces originally set on her. Iratxe danced with Lyon Opera Ballet before becoming a member of Nederlands Dance Theatre under Director Anders Hellstrom. She has worked with choreographers such as Nacho Duato, William Forsythe, Jiri Kylian, Mats Ek, Jacopo Godani, Johan Inger, Medhi Walerski, Crystal Pite, Ohad Naharin, Wayne McGregor, Alexander Ekman, to name a few.
After leaving NDT, Iratxe became a freelance artist in 2009. Her creations have won awards and mentions in choreographic competitions such as the International Solo Tanz Theater Festival, Certamen Coreografico de Madrid, and an award for artistic trajectory by the Association of Dance Professionals (Spain) in 2007. As a freelance artist she has created work for Lyon Opera Ballet, and danced and given workshops in various countries around the world. Dos Cuerpos is Iratxe’s first collaboration with T.H.E Dance Company.

Sun Shang-Chi

Sun Shang-Chi

Taiwan-born dancer and choreographer Sun Shang-Chi attended the National Academy of Arts in Taipei and graduated from Ernst Bush University (Berlin) with M.A. in Choreography. In 2007, he founded Shang Chi Move, and has presented his creations at festivals in Europe and Asia, including Maison de la Danse in Lyon, France, Festival Tanz im August in Berlin, Germany, Festival d'Avignon in France, and the International Taipei Arts Festival.
Shang-Chi has also been commissioned to create works by companies such as Sasha Waltz & Guests, Taiwan's Cloud Gate Dance Theatre 2, London's Transitions Company, and the Dance Company of City Theatre Osnabrück. He collaborates with Singapore's T.H.E Dance Company for the first time in April 2015, creating Nexus.

Dimo Kirilov

Dimo Kirilov

Choreographer

Formerly a principal dancer of Spain’s Compañia Nacional de Danza, Dimo Kirilov has also been part of companies such as the Jeune Ballet de France and the Ballet National de Nancy et Lorraine. He became a freelance artist in 2009, working on international collaborative projects with choreographers such as Gentian Doda. Dimo’s collaborative work with Doda, Aimless, was awarded the first prize at the 2013 Burgos choreographic competition.

Mui Cheuk-Yin

Mui Cheuk-Yin

Choreographer

Currently the Associate Choreographer of the City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) in Hong Kong, Mui Cheuk-Yin was trained in Chinese classical and ethnic dance, and studied modern dance in New York. She was principal dancer with the Hong Kong Dance Company (HKDC) from 1981 to 1990.
Mui became an independent choreographer / dancer / teacher in the 1990s, receiving frequent commissions by the HKDC and the CCDC to create new works. Her major works include Eulogy, la grace, October Red, and The Tale of Miles in Triptych. Mui has also been invited to numerous international arts festivals such as the Venice Biennial Dance Festival (1999), the Lyon Biennale de la Danse (2000), and the Beijing Modern Dance Festival 2001.
For her stellar achievements, Mui received the Chief Executive's Commendation for Community Service in 2007.

Xing Liang

Xing Liang

Choreographer

Born in Beijing, Xing Liang is a household name in Asian Contemporary Dance. He joined the Guangdong Modern Dance Company in 1993 and later became one of the most well-known dancers in City Contemporary Dance Company (Hong Kong). Xing has won countless regional as well as international awards, His recent major choreographic works included Stranger than Fiction, The Conqueror, Nijinsky and Out Of The Box.

Goh Boon Ann

Goh Boon Ann

Lighting Designer

Goh Boon Ann is currently Assistant Professor at the Taipei National University of Arts’ School of Dance. Born in Malaysia, he has been a dancer with Hong Kong Dance Company, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre and City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC). He is also a founding member of the South “ASLI”’ Dance Workshop. He was the Resident Lighting Designer of CCDC and Guangdong Modern Dance Company from 2005 – 2013.
His major designs include Warrior Lanling, Seasonal Syndromes, Out Of The Box, What’s Next? Crime Scene! Very Dance!, As If To Nothing,The Tale of Miles in Tripyth and Strip Teaser 2012 for CCDC; The Comedy of K (2012 rerun), The Buying Game; and Hedvig from The Wild Duck. Other works include city:zen, Unspeakable for BeijingDance / LDTX, Wind-Forest-Fire-Mountain and Heaven and Earth for Guangdong Modern Dance Company; City of the Fall for Sete Tele and The Journey of Unrestrained for Zhang Xiaoxiong; and Moments in Time for Hong Kong Ballet. Goh’s lighting design for Upon Calligraphy by Liu Qi received the 2nd Class Award in Lighting Design at the 9th Guangdong Arts Festival, while his work for Six Degrees by Xing Liang garnered him the Outstanding Design for Dance award from the Hong Kong Dance Awards 2011.

Chang Hui-Ni

Chang Hui-Ni

Music Composer

Born in 1969 in Changhua, Taiwan, Chang Hui-Ni studied composition with Lin Chin-Yow, Pan Hwang-long and Lu Yen. In 1995, she received her MFA from the National Institute of the Arts (renamed Taipei National University of the Arts in 2001). From 2000 to 2001, she was a resident artist at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris following an appointment by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan. During this time she also studied with Guy Reibel at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, and gave several performances in Paris and Rouen.
Chang has a diverse music practice, ranging from concert music compositions to collaborations with artists from different disciplines including theatre, dance, and film. In September 2013, she provided the improvisational music for the drama TAKE 321! during its live performance at the 6th Taipei Fringe Festival. In December, the National Taiwan University’s EMBA Chorus commissioned Chang to create a choral work, which was performed at the Taipei Zhongshan Hall.
As a teacher of music theory and composition at the Taiwan Theological College and Seminary, Chang is actively involved in music education, having also edited textbooks used in Taiwanese junior high schools. She is also an accompanist at the dance departments of various schools, including the Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei Hwa-Kang Arts School and National Lan-Yang Girls’ Senior High School.

Tze Toh

Tze Toh

Music Composer

Award-winning composer-pianist Tze Toh has created music for films/animation, documentaries, contemporary dance and created Singapore's only contemporary Asian fusion orchestra Tze n Looking Glass Orchestra. He has composed works for the Discovery Channel, Infinite Frameworks, filmmaker Royston Tan, and for international events such as Journey of the Youth Olympic Flame 2010, Singapore Showcase, Auckland. He also created the original live score for Ramesh Meyyappan's theatre piece, Snails and Ketchup (part of the London 2012 London Cultural Olympiad). His orchestra performed for the official opening of Singapore's iconic Gardens by the Bay in 2012.
In 2011 Toh won the first prize in the UK Songwriting contest and his debut fusion album Stories from wonderland was selected as one of the top 10 albums of 2011 by Business Times, for having “helped shape music in 2011”. He has performed both locally and overseas in festivals including the Indonesia Music Expo (IMEX), ASEAN Jazz Festival, Singapore Arts Festival, MOSAIC Music festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His composed works have been performed in France, Scotland, UK, New Zealand, Japan, Indonesia and Singapore.
A self-taught composer and pianist, his influences include Ennio Morricone, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Keith Jarrett, E.S.T trio, Yoko Kanno, (early) John Williams, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Igor Stravinsky.

Natalie Tse

Natalie Tse

Chinese Zither player

Natalie Tse is a Chinese Zither – Guzheng performer, educator, and experimenter. Her signature style involves sonic experiences using electronic effects, creating different soundscapes with the Guzheng. She has performed locally and internationally in events such as Spotlight Singapore (Moscow) and WOMAD (Singapore). Natalie is a member of musical trio SA(仨); NOISE Singapore Music Award Winners 2013, and has performed with SA(仨) at the Shenzhen Fringe Festival (Shenzhen) and Tribal Gathering of Tongue Tasters (Singapore) amongst others.
Natalie holds a Masters of Arts in Music from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Arts; Department of Music. Awards include the Grand Prix – prize of the Minister of Education and the European Krzysztof Penderecki Music Centre, Bydgoszcz Musical Impressions 2009 (Poland), and the 2004 Gold Medal Award at the 21st Century International Chinese Music Festival in Genting.

Wu Yi-San

Wu Yi-San

Choreographer

Wu Yi-San is currently a full-time Associate Professor at Taipei National University of the Arts’ School of Dance. She graduated from the National Taiwan University of Arts’ Department of Dance, and holds a MFA awarded by the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Wu was also a dancer with Cloud Gate Dance Theatre in Taiwan, Hong Kong’s City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC), and a member of South “ASLI” Dance Workshop. In 2000, she received the Hong Kong Dance Awards from the Hong Kong Dance Alliance. In 2003 and 2006, she was inducted into the Hong Kong Dance Hall of Fame. In 2003, she received The Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund to study at the London Contemporary Dance School in UK, and while there, performed with Random Dance Company and Akram Khan Dance Company, and worked with Protein Dance.
Since 1999, she has been teaching in the CCDC Dance Centre, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, E Side Dance Company, Y Space, DanceArt Hong Kong, Guangdong Dance Camp and Festival, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, and different dance communities. She has choreographed works for Crucible in Germany, T.H.E Dance Company in Singapore, CCDC, E Side Dance Company, amongst others, and has collaborated with different artists to explore various creative mediums and perspectives.

Bani Haykal

Bani Haykal

Music Composer

Bani Haykal experiments with text + music. As a performer and writer, he has collaborated with various collectives and individuals locally and internationally, participating in several festivals including World Event Young Artist (UK), da:ns Festival, 55mm2 Festival (Germany) and The M1 Fringe Festival among others. He has also toured, both as a soloist and with The Observatory, in France, Italy and Norway.
His work with music includes being the vocalist and songwriter for b-quartet, music collective mux, audio-visual performance group OFFCUFF and The Observatory. As a solo musician, he has released 3 studies (Ergophobia / how I got lost and died trying / sketches of syllables) exploring structured improvisation and spoken word.
As an artist he has exhibited in The Substation, Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore and Platform 3 (Bandung), having produced 3 works, Rethinking Music, inside the subject and Dormant Music. He is currently an Associate Artist with The Substation.

Adrian Tan

Adrian Tan

Lighting Designer

Adrian Tan’s designs have been staged at numerous cities around the world, including Jakarta, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing, Bratislava (Slovakia) and Prague. Most notably, A Cage Goes In Search of A Bird for theatre collective A GROUP OF PEOPLE was nominated for Best Lighting Design at the 2011 Life! Theatre Awards and also awarded Production of The Year.
Recent designs by Tan include, Company The Musical (Nominee, Production of The Year, Life! Theatre Awards 2013). Broadway Beng. Kumar, Crazy Christmas, Happy Ever Laughter and The Hossan Leong Show, all for Dream Academy. Not forgetting the well-received Cooling Off Day (Nominee, Production of The Year, Life! Theatre Awards 2012) for W!ld Rice, other shows for W!ld Rice include National Language Class, that premiered at the first Singapore Theatre Festival in 2006, and Cook A Pot Of Curry, which was part of the W!ld Rice Festival, Alfian Saat: In The Spotlight.
His versatility has been displayed in numerous dance shows, such as Coppelia, both 2012 and 2013 editions of Masterpiece In Motion and the Ballet Under The Stars, all for Singapore Dance Theatre. Tan has also worked on the 2012 and 2013 editions of Solo/ Duet by T.H.E Dance Company, under the NUS Arts Festival. He was also the Festival Designer for T.H.E’s CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festivals in 2011 and 2012, in September this year was the Designer for T.H.E’s New Vision triple bill performance, staged as part of their fifth anniversary celebrations.
In 2006, Tan was the first Asian recipient of the ETC Sponsorship Awards held in Las Vegas, USA.

Anna Rouhu

Anna Rouhu

Lighting Designer

Anna Rouhu studied lighting design at the Theatre Academy of Finland (Teatterikorkeakoulu) completing her Masters Degree in May 2009. She currently works as a freelance lighting designer both in Finland and internationally. Her works consist all forms of performing arts from live art to opera.
In Finland she has worked with well-known directors such as Saana Lavaste, Atro Kahiluoto, Eero-Tapio Vuori and playwright-director Marjo Niemi in both established institutions as well as experimental projects. Notable productions in Finland include Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt (2009), directed by Eero-Tapio Vuori at the Kajaani Theatre; Naytat Vieraalta Rakas (2009) with Marjo Niemi at the Teatteri Jurkka; Don Giovanni (2011) at the Savonlinna Opera Festival and Alkutuotanto (2012), a collaboration between Teatteri 2.0 and Kotka City Theatre directed by Saana Lavaste and Iiristiina Varilo.
Since 2009 she has worked closely with T.H.E Dance Company designing lights for numerous productions such as Within.Without (2009); Silence – T.H.E First Anniversary (2009); O Sounds (2010); The Man In The Centre (2010); As It Fades (2011) and for main shows in the CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival 2010 and 2011. Her most recent works with T.H.E are Silences We Are Familiar With at the Esplanade da:ns Festival 2012 and CONTACT 2012 main shows.

Darren Ng

Darren Ng

Sound Artist & Music Composer

For the past two decades, Darren has sound designed and composed music for over 200 arts productions, and has received multiple Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards for Best Sound. As a music composer, he is signed to record label Kitchen. Label, going by the pseudonym – sonicbrat, and was invited to perform solo in numerous prestigious international music and arts festivals across Europe and Asia. He has been Associate Sound Artist and Music Composer for The Finger Players since 2004 and is a cofounder of the design collective INDEX. He was conferred the Young Artist Award (music; multi-disciplinary practice) in 2012 by the National Arts Council.